Wednesday September 08 , 2010
Special Diets - Low Carb
Created by Karen

This is a low carb chicken recipe, adequate for those on a low carb weight loss diet.

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Baby spinach is tender and sweet, perfect for a salad. Combine baby spinach with avocado and red onion, dress it with a perfectly balanced condiment, and the result is a delicious, anti-oxidant rich salad. Real healthy!

Created by Ehmer

This recipe yields 8 to 10 servings. A serving is 1/3 cup.

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Created by Karen

Serve with pickles or cucumbers on the side, and a salad.

Created by Karen

Enjoy chicken breasts with balsamico with couscous, plain rice, or a healthy risotto with peas.

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Created by Karen

This recipe is low GI, low carb and gluten free is the chicken broth is. If using prepared chicken broth or making it from a stock cube, check the ingredients.

Created by Karen

The feta cheese gives these a particularly wonderful and unique flavor. You don't need to miss out on good food because you are on a diet.

Created by Karen

Substitute mashed potatoes with cauliflower mash for a shepherd's pie dish that is low in carbohydrates.

Created by Karen

A low carb quiche means have just the filling, without the crust. You could call it spinach cheese terrine.

Created by Karen

This recipe serves to replace mashed potatoes in a low carbohydrates or low calorie diet. Serve mashed cauliflower as you would mashed potatoes.

Created by Karen

A typical vegetable mix to have baked or grilled in all the Mediterranean. You will find a similar recipe, minus mozzarella, in each country along the Mediterranean coast.

Created by Karen

These taste delicious and make a great lunch. Add a side salad for a quick dinner too.

For the main filling

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Halloumi is a Greek cheese that retains it’s shape when grilled or cooked. It’s a delicious addition to vegetarian meals. It’s worth to add that Halloumi has a slightly salty taste so use salt sparingly in dishes that include this cheese.

Created by Karen

Are you missing potato salad on your low carb diet? Try this recipe. It has a very similar flavor and texture and is super easy to make. you can enjoy the potato salad feeling. Only 3 or less carbs per serving!

Created by Karen

This makes a simple and delicious side dish with a twist.

Created by Karen

Stir fries are slow to prepare - all vegetables need to be cut - but quick to cook.

Created by Karen

Pine kernels have many of the healthful properties other nuts have. They are a great addition to any salad. Use a variety of salad leaves, such as rocket, red leaf, green leaf, and Romaine to round it off. The more antioxidant rich the leaves, the healthier the salads.

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Created by Karen

Makes a great sweet treat without loading up on calories. Who says you can't have candy when you diet?

Created by Karen

Trout is very affordable and healthy. Filleted, you avoid the problem of fish bones.

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Created by Karen

This recipe is impressive enough to serve for a dinner party but so easy to make.

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Created by Karen

This is a basic frittata recipe that you can enhance to your taste. The combinations are endless but sometimes just a quick and basic recipe like this one hits the spot.

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Created by Karen

Tuna may contain high levels of mercury so it’s best to eat only occasionally. Also choose an organic, wild tuna - not farmed - where possible.

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Oily fish such as tuna is healthy for your heart. You get a double benefit from this recipe.

Created by Karen

Better than what you might find at the local sub shop.

Created by Karen

Healthy and easy. The combination of orange and garlic is surprisingly umami.

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Hint of Herbs

Stir chervil in ham and cheese omelets. Use it in dressings for pasta or potato salads.

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Choice Tidbits

Picnics and summer garden parties are great ways to enjoy life outdoors, but in the summer time, barbecue and grill reign supreme, as Erin M. Phelan will explain, though this time she took the route of the community BBQ.

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Full of Flavor

Mild, delicate flavor. Used in western and oriental cuisines; many varieties with different flavors in sauces, stuffing, soups. As a vegetables they are used in Orient with fish, meat and poultry; also as a side dish in western cuisines. Dried, they are used as seasoning rather than vegetable.

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